| 单词 | impulse buying |
| 释义 | > as lemmasimpulse buying C3. Of or pertaining to a purchase or purchases made on impulse, usually at the point of sale of displayed goods, as impulse buyer, impulse buying, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > [adjective] > bought or purchased > bought on impulse impulse1959 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 May (Children's Books) 5 [Children's books] snarl ‘impulse buyers’ in the supermarket. 1959 Sunday Express 26 July 10/4 The Opposition Leader's Lady and Judy O'Grady are ‘impulse buyers’ under the skin. 1959 News Chron. 18 Nov. 4/2 What the traders call ‘impulse buying’ is increasingly popular. 1962 Sunday Express 8 July 15/2 Top dressers..plunge with the odd ‘impulse buy’. 1963 Punch 27 Nov. 772 New Prime Minister..impulse-buys sixty Phantom 11s. 1964 Punch 6 May 655/3 Trolleys full of impulse-bought bargains. 1965 Mod. Law Rev. 28 v. 557 None of the reasons given for minimising the importance of ‘impulse sales’ apply with special force to the book trade. 1967 L. J. Braun Cat who ate Danish Mod. x. 88 These are little boutique items for the impulse buyer. 1968 ‘S. Jay’ Sleepers can Kill vi. 66 He goes into a shop..and buys a boat... An impulse buy, if ever there was one. 1972 New Statesman 26 May 709/3 I impulse-bought some crumpets the other day, because they were on the counter at the dairy. < as lemmas |
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